# 把拉
## Chinese
### Etymology

Plausibly from either:
* Spanish paga (“payment; to pay”), from Spanish pagar (“to pay”), which was frequently used as the main definition in 1½ of the pages for the Hokkien term for "to pay", attested and translated in Spanish in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642). The Chinese community of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era used to speak a sort of Spanish pidgin variety known as "Caló Chino Español" and "La Lengua del Parian" (in Spanish) or "Kastilang tindahan" (in Tagalog).
* Tagalog pala (“recompense; consequence; payment taken from someone”), attested in the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1860), although the glottal stop at the end IPA: /pɐˈlaʔ/ denotes it as less likely.
See also Taiwanese Hokkien 飛行機 / 飞行机 (hoe-lêng-ki / hui-hêng-ki / poe-lêng-ki / hui-lêng-ki / hoe-nn̄g-ki), where 行 (hêng) turns into 行 (lêng).

### Pronunciation

* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pá-lâ
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Philippines)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pá-lâ
*** Tâi-lô: pá-lâ
*** Phofsit Daibuun: paflaa
*** IPA (Philippines): /pa⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ la²⁴/

### Verb

把拉
* (Philippine Hokkien) to pay (in person)

#### Synonyms

* 予鐳 / 予镭 (Hokkien)
* 交付 (jiāofù)
* 付 (fù)
* 付出 (fùchū)
* 付款 (fùkuǎn)
* 付鈔票 / 付钞票 (Wu)
* 付錢 / 付钱 (fùqián)
* 出錢 / 出钱 (chūqián)
* 挺分 ($^5$thin-fen) (Shanghainese, slang)
* 挺張 / 挺张 ($^5$thin-tsan) (Wu)
* 掏腰包 (tāo yāobāo) (to pay out of one's own pocket)
* 支付 (zhīfù)
* 支出 (zhīchū)
* 畀錢 / 畀钱 (bei$^2$ cin$^{4-2}$) (Cantonese)
* 繳 / 缴
* 自掏腰包 (zì tāo yāobāo) (to pay out of one's own pocket)
* 還錢 / 还钱 (huánqián) (Malaysia, Singapore)
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 付 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 付 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Malaysia | 還, 付 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 還, 付 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 付 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 付 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 畀 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 畀 |
| Cantonese | Singapore (Guangfu) | 畀 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 付 |
| Hakka | Kuching (Hepo) | 還 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 付 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 付 |
| Southern Min | Penang (Hokkien) | 予 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 還 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 把拉, 還 obsolete |
| Wu | Shanghai | 付 |

#### Antonyms

* 收入 (shōurù)

### References

* ↑ Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum‎ (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 356/193; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum‎, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
* ↑ Andrade, Pío (2008) “Education and Spanish in the Philippines”, in Asociación Cultural Galeón de Manila‎
* ↑ Ferdinand Blumentritt, T. H. Pardo de Tavera (1885) Vocabular einzelner Ausdrücke und Redensarten, welche dem Spanischen der Philippinischen Inseln eigenthümlich sind‎ (overall work in Spanish and German), Leitmeritz: Verlag der Communal-Ober-Realschule, page 18
* ↑ Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, page 227